Wednesday, November 16, 2011

all that stands between us and the rise of the apes

Appearing on ABC's Good Morning America, Monday, to shill for his
latest book, Bill Maher told George Stephanopoulos he's rooting for
Mitt Romney to win the Republican nomination. "At least he eats with a
knife and fork. I mean, he is all that stands between us and the rise
of the apes."

Couldn't that be seen as a bit racist toward Herman Cain? We're used
to Maher slamming religious folks in that way, but "apes"?
Stephanopoulos didn't blink.

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Re: 58 members of Congress among wealthy 1% – USATODAY.com

Unless Kerry's number doesn't include his wife's (I don't recall a pre-
nup), thats total BS.

Triple it

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Obama’s DOJ Believes Lying on Dating Sites Should Be a Crime



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Obama's DOJ Believes Lying on Dating Sites Should Be a Crime

by Scotty Starnes

This administration is straight up scary. If lying on a dating site is a crime, how do they feel about Obama lying every time his lips move?

From CNet:

The U.S. Department of Justice is defending computer hacking laws that make it a crime to use a fake name on Facebook or lie about your weight in an online dating profile at a site like Match.com.

Just don't ask the DOJ to arrest illegal immigrants. They seem to have an issue with criminals while pushing insane laws to arrest Americans for simply lying.

In a statement obtained by CNET that's scheduled to be delivered tomorrow, the Justice Department argues that it must be able to prosecute violations of Web sites' often-ignored, always-unintelligible "terms of service" policies.

The law must allow "prosecutions based upon a violation of terms of service or similar contractual agreement with an employer or provider," Richard Downing, the Justice Department's deputy computer crime chief, will tell the U.S. Congress tomorrow.

Scaling back that law "would make it difficult or impossible to deter and address serious insider threats through prosecution," and jeopardize prosecutions involving identity theft, misuse of government databases, and privacy invasions, according to Downing.

The law in question, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, has been used by the Justice Department to prosecute a woman, Lori Drew, who used a fake MySpace account to verbally attack a 13-year old girl who then committed suicide. Because MySpace's terms of service prohibit impersonation, Drew was convicted of violating the CFAA. Her conviction was later thrown out.

What makes this possible is a section of the CFAA that was never intended to be used that way: a general-purpose prohibition on any computer-based act that "exceeds authorized access." To the Justice Department, this means that a Web site's terms of service define what's "authorized" or not, and ignoring them can turn you into a felon.

On the other hand, because millions of Americans likely violate terms of service agreements every day, you'd have a lot of company.

A letter (PDF) sent to the Senate in August by a left-right coalition including the ACLU, Americans for Tax Reform, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and FreedomWorks warns of precisely that. "If a person assumes a fictitious identity at a party, there is no federal crime," the letter says. "Yet if they assume that same identity on a social network that prohibits pseudonyms, there may again be a CFAA violation. This is a gross misuse of the law."

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Re: A Hindu, a Jew, and a Muslim Stop at a Farm

Q: What's the difference between a Catholic wife and a Jewish wife?
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Privatizing Police Work



 

 

 

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2011/10/privatizing-police-work/329/

Privatizing Police Work

Fighting crime is expensive. And if you're a small town with diminishing resources, the price of public safety can often be a heavy but necessary burden. One small town in Minnesota is attempting to slash its costs by outsourcing their police work to a private security firm.

KARE-TV reports that the town of Foley, about 60 miles outside of Minneapolis, has handed over its police work to General Security Services Corporation, a private security provider that serves private homes, companies, commercial areas and government buildings. Full-time patrols will begin in January.

The town of about 2,600 had previously been relying on sheriff's deputies from Benton County, who would patrol the city for 17.1 hours a day at a monthly cost of about $23,000 a month. The new deal with General Security Services will cost $98,500 for six months, or about $7,000 less per month than the cost of the sheriff's deputies.

Private policing is increasingly common in cities across the U.S., though it's typically only used for a portion of a city's public safety needs. It's a trend that's growing in cities much larger than Foley. Oakland, California, for example, hired a number of private security guards to patrol a crime-ridden part of town in 2009. They got four private guards for less than the price of one police officer.

But along with those savings come reduced services. Foley's private security guards will be able to patrol areas and make citizen arrests, but can't investigate crimes or perform traffic stops. That trade-off could be great for the city's budget, but there's also the possibility that the cost of crime outweighs the cost of savings.

 

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Thailand РHuman rights defender and magazine editor Somyot Prueksakasemsuk faces l̬se majest̩ charge

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16 November 2011

 

H.E. Yingluck Shinnawatra,
Prime Minister,
Office of the Prime Minister,

Government House,
Thanon Phitsanulok, Dusit
Bangkok 10300,

Thailand

 

 

Re: Thailand РHuman rights defender and magazine editor Somyot Prueksakasemsuk faces l̬se majest̩ charge

 

Dear Prime Minister,

 

I am William Nicholas Gomes, a human rights activist and journalist. I am writing   to you to raise my concerns about the situation of human rights defender and magazine editor Mr Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, who will stand trial on charges of lèse majesté from 21 November 2011 until 4 May 2012. Somyot Prueksakasemsuk is a longtime labour rights activist and is affiliated with the Democratic Alliance of Trade Unions. He is facing a maximum of 30 years' imprisonment if found guilty.

 

Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, who is also editor of Voice of the Oppressed (Voice of Taksin), was arrested on 30 April 2011 at Aranyaprathet district, Sa Kaeo Province, and charged with contravening the lèse majesté  law or Section 112 of the Thai Criminal Code which states that "whoever defames, insults or threatens the King, the Queen, the Heir-apparent or the Regent, shall be punished with imprisonment of three to fifteen years". He was detained in Bangkok Special Prison and was reportedly transferred to Sa Kaeo Provincial Court on 12 November 2011. He has been in pre-trial detention for six and a half months since his arrest by Department of Special Investigation officials in April 2011. His fourth bail request was denied on 1 November 2011.

 

Somyot is known for his active support for the empowerment of the workers' movement and the right to freedom of association both in Thailand and internationally.  Somyot's arrest on 30 April came only five days after he held a press conference in Bangkok launching a campaign to collect 10,000 signatures to petition for a parliamentary review of Section 112 of the Criminal Code, which Somyot claims contradicts democratic and human rights principles. According to a document produced by the Public Prosecutor, Somyot is alleged to have allowed two articles that made negative references to the monarchy to be published in his magazine. 

 

The hearings involving the Prosecution witnesses will take place on 21 November 2011, 19 December 2011, 16 January 2012, and 13 February 2012 in the provinces of Sa Kaeo, Petchabun, Nakorn Sawan, and Songkla, respectively, while the  Defence witnesses will be called to appear before Bangkok Criminal Court on 18-20 April 2012, 24-26 April 2012, and 1-4 May 2012.

 

I am concerned that the venues of the hearings for the Prosecution witnesses are all held outside Bangkok in different provinces across the northern, northeastern, and southern provinces of Thailand, which will place an undue burden on Somyot and his family and undermine his fair trial rights. This may also prevent the full presence and participation of trial observers, diplomatic corps, and journalists.

 

I am  further disturbed that if Somyot's application for bail continues to be denied until the conclusion of the trial, he will have been in prison for over a year before a verdict is reached, since the trial is expected to last until at least 4 May 2012. This is in violation of the constitutional guarantee for a right to bail under Section 40 (7) of the 2007 Thai Constitution, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) which Thailand has ratified, and Principles 36-39 of the Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment (1988).

 

The Truth for Reconciliation Commission of Thailand (TRCT), in its second report, also emphasised that "a temporary release…is a fundamental right of accused persons and defendants in order to enable accused persons and defendants to defend their cases, to prove innocence and to reduce effects from the restriction of freedoms on themselves and families." Under national and international law, the right to bail can only be restricted on limited and precisely defined grounds. The authorities have yet to provide an adequate justification for his continued detention or an explanation as to why less restrictive and non-custodial measures are not sufficient to ensure his appearance at trial and non-tampering with evidence.

 

Our organisation William's desk are alarmed by the escalating cases of using lèse majesté law against human rights defenders and dissidents in the years following the military coup d'etat in 2006. Concerns have already been raised, in particular regarding the ongoing case of Ms Chiranuch Premchaiporn, Executive Director of Prachatai and a media rights advocate, who is also charged under the lèse majesté law and the 2007 Computer Crimes Act.

 

On 10 October 2011, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue, urged Thailand to urgently amend lèse majesté laws (Section 112 of the Penal Code and the 2007 Computer Crimes Act)[1]. As emphasized by the Special Rapporteur, "[t]he threat of a long prison sentence and vagueness of what kinds of expression constitute defamation, insult, or threat to the monarchy, encourage self-censorship and stifle important debates on matters of public interest, thus putting in jeopardy the right to freedom of opinion and expression".

 

Concerns regarding lèse majesté laws were also raised during the consideration of the situation of human rights in Thailand through the UN Universal Periodic Review in Geneva on 7 October 2011.

 

I call on the authorities in Thailand to:

 

1.    Immediately drop all charges against Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, or else, grant him the right to bail in accordance with fair trial standards under domestic and international law;

 

2.    Review the lèse majesté law to ensure its conformity with Thailand's international human rights obligations, as recommended by the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, and immediately drop all charges against human rights defenders based on these laws;

 

3.    Guarantee in all circumstances that all human rights defenders in Thailand, especially those working on freedom of expression, are able to carry out their legitimate human rights activities without fear of reprisals and free of all restrictions, including judicial harassment.

 

I respectfully remind you that the United Nations Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, adopted by consensus by the UN General Assembly on 9 December 1998, recognises the legitimacy of the activities of human rights defenders, their right to freedom of association and calls on States to ensure that they can carry out their activities without fear of reprisals. 

 

I would particularly draw attention to Article 6: "Everyone has the right, individually and in association with others: (c) To study, discuss, form and hold opinions on the observance, both in law and in practice, of all human rights and fundamental freedoms and, through these and other appropriate means, to draw public attention to those matters", and to Article 12: "(1) Everyone has the right, individually and in association with others, to participate in peaceful activities against violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms. (2) The State shall take all necessary measures to ensure the protection by the competent authorities of everyone, individually and in association with others, against any violence, threats, retaliation, de facto or de jure adverse discrimination, pressure or any other arbitrary action as a consequence of his or her legitimate exercise of the rights referred to in the present Declaration."

 

Yours Sincerely,

 

William Nicholas Gomes

Human Rights Activist and journalist

80/ B Bramon Chiron, Saydabad,

Dhaka-1203, Bangladesh.

 

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58 members of Congress among wealthy 1% – USATODAY.com



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In honor of Newt's resurrection, let's return to this oldie but goodie


In honor of Newt's resurrection, let's return to this oldie but goodie
Published: Monday, November 14, 2011, 2:15 PM     Updated: Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 8:50 PM
By Paul Mulshine/The Star Ledger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaZFfQKWX54&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.nj.com%2Fnjv_paul_mulshine%2F2011%2F11%2Fin_honor_of_newts_resurrection.html&feature=player_embedded

Zombies are popular these days. But I never thought I'd see Newt Gingrich return from the dead.

This guy is such an obvious fraud that I never expected any Republican to ever again take him seriously.

Watch above as he whores himself for the ethanol interests. If he ever becomes a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination, this video will sink him. There's a point in there where he looks like he's going to reach over and squeeze Pelosi's leg.

Worse is Newt's blatant sellout to the ethanol lobby. 

It's an unfortunate fact of politics that even dumb people are allowed to vote. And there are many people dumb enough not to see through Newt's pitch.

As I noted here, there were a whole lot of them in attendance at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington earlier this year. Newt got up on his hind legs and delivered a thinly disguised commercial for the agribusiness interests, yet the knuckleheads in the audience ate it up.

An excerpt from my reportage that day:

He just devoted 20 minutes to energy and environmental issues. It  was a thinly disguised pitch for the cap-and-trade program he put forth in the above commercial he shot with Nancy Pelosi.
The idealistic young people who attend this convention have no idea how to penetrate the code. When Gingrich proposed America build more flex-fuel vehicles, for example, he gave not the slightest hint that they burn 85 percent ethanol. And that the ethanol in question is on the market only because of federal mandates that push up the cost of fuel.
 In making the pitch for flex fuel, he said, "Let the consumers have the opportunity to choose what they want to do." That got a round of applause. But no consumer in his right mind would choose ethanol. It costs twice as much if unsubsidized and it has just two-thirds the energy of gasoline.
Pushing ethanol goes over great in the corn states, and Iowa is the No. 1 such state, so you can take this as a signal that Newt will be running for president.
Unfortunately for him, the video above should sink his chances. Cap and trade is universally despised by conservatives - though it's loved by the energy industry and Wall Street traders.
I kept waiting for him to come right out and say the C-word and the T-word. But that would have been honest. And Newt's a con man. When he was an earnest young history-professor-turned politician 20 years ago, he was an interesting guy. Now he's a washed-up hack.
By the way I saw a similar spiel from him several years ago when he pitched the Trotskyite foreign policy of the American Enterprise Institute, on whose payroll he appears.
Again the kids in the audience didn't penetrate the code.

But unless Newt can write a virus that blows up every computer with a copy of the above video, he's not just a history professor.
He's history.

Note in the video below of CPAC when he utters the immortal line "We should insist on flex-fuel cars" at the 24:50 mark.

Anyone who knows anything about this knows that in the free market there would be no flex-fuel cars. They - and ethanol - are on the market solely because of government mandates.

But that is a tough thing for the average wannabe conservative to understand.

His mash session with Nancy Pelosi is easy.

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Why the Old Media Ignore Ron Paul


"I believe that the Jensen/Meckling theory is correct as far as it goes, but it omits some other important elements of the sources of the statist bias of the media. Murray Rothbard filled in these gaps in his two essays entitled "The Nature of the State" and "Anatomy of the State." All governments, Rothbard wrote, rely crucially on a set of myths and superstitions about its alleged greatness and benevolence, coupled with accompanying lies, myths and superstitions about the "evils" of freedom, voluntarism, private enterprise, and the civil society. These myths and superstitions are not spread by government bureaucrats as much as by various intellectual prostitutes in academe and in the media. The "court historians" of academe spin tall tale after tall tale about the alleged need for more and more government (Keynesian economics would be a good example), while these ideas are spread about to the general public by pundits and journalists."

Why the Old Media Ignore Ron Paul
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

More than thirty years ago University of Rochester economists William Meckling and Michael Jensen authored a thought-provoking article on the sources of "liberal bias" in the media. Being Chicago School-style economists, their thesis was based, naturally, on a rigorous exploration of how the media best pursue their own self-interest, coupled with an analysis of the role of government in shaping that self-interest. In short, their thesis was that government had by that time become so big and pervasive that your average journalist -- even local news reporters -- relied on government itself and all of its politicians and bureaucrats for most of the information that they "report." If one is an environmental reporter, for example, one must cultivate relationships with EPA bureaucrats who are the source of the latest news about environmental policy. If one is a labor reporter, one must cultivate relationships with U.S. Department of Labor bureaucrats who are the source of the latest news about labor policy, and so on.

Consequently, any news reporter who is too critical of the government agencies that he is reporting about risks being cut off from his information sources, the lifeblood of his career, which will then be ruined. (A glaring example of this phenomenon is how former Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich ordered all of his appointees to refuse to talk to anyone associated with the Baltimore Sun, which had been hyper-critical of him and his administration).

Thus, according to Jensen and Meckling, career self-preservation among journalists requires that they essentially become lapdogs and mouthpieces for the state. They will tolerate and occasionally report about inconsequential and marginal criticisms of the state, such as those made by some of the D.C. "libertarian" think tanks, in order to delude the public into believing that there is actually a public policy debate in Washington. But whenever someone with the views of Congressman Ron Paul appears who challenges the very propriety and existence of any statist central planning institution (such as the Fed), the media will ignore and/or demonize him and everyone associated with his views.

I believe that the Jensen/Meckling theory is correct as far as it goes, but it omits some other important elements of the sources of the statist bias of the media. Murray Rothbard filled in these gaps in his two essays entitled "The Nature of the State" and "Anatomy of the State." All governments, Rothbard wrote, rely crucially on a set of myths and superstitions about its alleged greatness and benevolence, coupled with accompanying lies, myths and superstitions about the "evils" of freedom, voluntarism, private enterprise, and the civil society. These myths and superstitions are not spread by government bureaucrats as much as by various intellectual prostitutes in academe and in the media. The "court historians" of academe spin tall tale after tall tale about the alleged need for more and more government (Keynesian economics would be a good example), while these ideas are spread about to the general public by pundits and journalists.

This, too, is why the media ignore Ron Paul. There are a few exceptions, but for the most part they have invested many years of schooling and work as propaganda mouthpieces for the state. They are as much a part of the state apparatus as is any government bureaucrat or any politician. They are the essential tool of the state in dumbing down the general population so that it will peacefully acquiesce in the never-ending expansion of the state and the financial enrichment of all its functionaries, while losing their own freedom and prosperity at the same time. They are the paid professional liars who repeat, over and over, such absurdities as: "Higher taxes and more government spending will make us prosperous;" "taking naked x-ray photographs of everyone passing through airports is constitutional;" "the Constitution gives the president the right to bomb any country on the planet without consulting with anyone else, especially the Congress"; "the founding fathers thought it would be a good idea to place everyone's freedom in the hands of five government lawyers with lifetime tenure (i.e., supreme court justices)"; "healthcare socialism will cause health care costs to decline"; "recessions and depressions are caused by sudden outbursts of greed and animal spirits" (according to John Maynard Keynes); "capitalists get rich by selling people products that harm or even kill them"; and on and on and on.

Having spent their entire careers spreading such absurd lies, the appearance of an educated, articulate truth teller like Congressman Ron Paul absolutely terrifies the media, for Ron Paul threatens to expose them, once and for all, as the frauds and enemies of the free society that they are. That is why it is imperative that the media do everything in its power to ignore and demonize Ron Paul and his millions of freedom-loving supporters. So far, the biggest stumbling block in the way of the old media is the new media and Web sites like LewRockwell.com, which one can only hope will someday soon cause the demise of the gang of liars, deceivers, and propagandists known as "the mainstream media."

http://lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo218.html

Poverty in America?


Poverty in America?
By Walter E. Williams
11/16/2011
 
According to CBS News, "the number of people in the U.S. living in poverty in 2010 rose for the fourth year in a row, representing the largest number of Americans in poverty in the 52 years since such estimates have been published by the U.S. Census Bureau." MSNBC said, "The U.S. poverty rate remains among the highest in the developed world." Let's look at a few poverty facts.

Heritage Foundation researchers Dr. Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield laid out some facts about the poor in their report "Understanding Poverty in the United States: Surprising Facts About America's Poor" (9/13/2011). Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. Nearly three-fourths have a car or truck, and 31 percent have two or more. Two-thirds have cable or satellite TV. Half have one or more computers. Forty-two percent own their homes. The average poor American has more living space than the typical non-poor person in Sweden, France or the U.K. Ninety-six percent of poor parents stated that their children were never hungry during the year because they couldn't afford food.

"The Material Well-Being of the Poor and the Middle Class Since 1980" (10/25/2011) is a research paper by professor Bruce D. Meyer of the University of Chicago and The National Bureau of Economic Research and professor James X. Sullivan of the University of Notre Dame. In it they report: "Our results show evidence of considerable improvement in material well-being for both the middle class and the poor over the past three decades. Median income and consumption both rose by more than 50 percent in real terms between 1980 and 2009. In addition, the middle 20 percent of the income distribution experienced noticeable improvements in housing characteristics: living units became bigger and much more likely to have air conditioning and other features. The quality of the cars these families own also improved considerably. Similarly, we find strong evidence of improvement in the material well-being of poor families."

The grim official measures of poverty or income stagnation reported are the result of a number of biases that understate well-being, such as relying exclusively on narrow income measures that do not reflect all the resources available to the household for consumption. Income measures fail to capture important components of economic well-being, such as wealth and the ownership of durables, e.g., houses and cars. For example, official measures would consider a retired couple who owned their car and mortgage-free $700,000 home and lived on $20,000 savings to be poor. Clearly, their income does not reflect their material well-being.

"Income Mobility in the U.S. from 1996 to 2005" (11/13/2007) is a report by the U.S. Department of the Treasury that shows considerable income mobility of individuals in the U.S. economy. "Roughly half of taxpayers who began in the bottom income quintile in 1996 moved up to a higher income group by 2005. Among those with the very highest incomes in 1996 -- the top 1/100 of 1 percent -- only 25 percent remained in this group in 2005. Moreover, the median real income of these top taxpayers declined over the study period." These findings confirm previous studies dating back to the 1960s reaching the same conclusion, namely: At different periods of time, different people occupy different income groups, but the overall trend is upward.

What about the concentration of wealth? In 1918, John D. Rockefeller's fortune accounted for more than half of 1 percent of total private wealth. To compile the same half of 1 percent of the total private wealth in the United States today, you'd have to combine the fortunes of Microsoft's Bill Gates ($59 billion) and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ($19 billion), but with 10 other multibillionaires in between.

Our congressionally caused recession has indeed caused needless hardship for many Americans, but the big poverty and income stagnation hype is part and parcel of an agenda to make us more accepting of politicians getting their hands deeper into our pocketbooks in the name of helping the poor.


http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2011/11/16/poverty_in_america

Re: Obama's catastrophic pipeline cop-out

This is a big story in Canada for the blatant politics and sheer stupidity of it.

There is a raising opinion  here to say to hell with e U.S. and just build a pipeline to the B.C. coast and sell it to Asia. The U.S. government has been pissing around with the approval for years. Enough. 

I should mention that the Ottawa Citizen is one of the most left wing newspapers in Canada. They usually faun over Obama. So, if even they have became disillusioned, that speaks volumes. 

Bear



On 15 November 2011 22:22, Travis <baconlard@gmail.com> wrote:
 

 

 

 http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Obama+catastrophic+pipeline/5715471/story.html

 

 

Ottawa Citizen

 Division of Canwest Publishing Inc. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Obama's catastrophic pipeline cop-out

 

The U.S. president has handed a victory to Occupy protesters and Hollywood hipsters over common sense

 

By David Wilkins, The Ottawa Citizen November 15, 2011 7:21 PM 

 

 

 

  

 

David Wilkins, former U.S. ambassador to Canada, says U.S. President Barack Obama's delay on the Keystone pipeline decision goes against common sense.

 

Photograph by: Bruno Schlumberger, The Ottawa Citizen

 

The proposed Keystone XL Pipeline offers nothing but promise: tens of thousands of desperately needed jobs, and a big step toward ensuring North American energy security.

 


 


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Is it any wonder there is so much on rage on MSNBC and CNN.   Just like the libatards that watch those networks, they can't comprehend that they are responsible for their own rankings.  They haven't figured out that most people are smarter than the libatard networks want them to be.  They have cornered the market on people who are too lazy and illiterate to know any better.
 
FoxNews should add to their "Fair and Balanced" identity that they are the network for the well informed and educated viewers. 
 
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Re: **JP** MFN....India

 I am totally agree with the statement of UN Barry.  We need peace with equality but not on the cost of Kashmir cause and other basic discrimination between both countries.

Thanks
Malik Saeed


From: UN Barry <unbarry@yahoo.com>
To:
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 11:26 PM
Subject: **JP** MFN....India


 
assalam o alaikum,

have u ever heard this.....lamhon nay khata ki hai
                                 sadiyon nay saza pai hai


If yes then why are we all staying quiet over the decision of giving the status of Most Favourite Nation to India? Do you know the criteria for granting such status to any country? We all have some criterias for life partner while tying knots with someone then how can we take such a big decision that will determine my fate,your fate and eventually the nation's future....future in which our generations have to live....

The criterias for the MFN are:

1. there should be no border disputes between them..(where is Kashmir and their martyrs now?)

2.Both countries have common interests and benefits...(what about the dams constructed by India over Indus, Jhelum,                                                                                      Neelum to stop the downstream flow)

3.Both countries have granted equality by the other nations.(Is this so?)

4. there should be balance of trade among them.(will load shedding, high cost fuels, closing industries and railways                                                                                 maintain this balance?India doesn't let our commodities in beyond the                                                                           Amritsar while itself demanding the access for its products throughout                                                                           Pakistan...is this a friendship?)

5. they should fulfill the criteria of "a friend in need is a friend indeed"...(then what is going on in Balochistan and who                                                                                                              played the role in East Pakistan that turned into                                                                                                            Bangladesh.Who made the strategic agreement                                                                                                         with Afghanistan against our country Pakistan)


My dear countrymen! Raise your voice against this decision that might be a mistake for centuries.Learn some lesson from the history of East India Company who came here  in the name of trade and left the influence of high grades

Regards
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RE: **JP** MFN....India

Well said brother.
 
I reject INDIA as MFN.  Is Mulk mein khair kahan hai?  Is mulk mein jitney gunah hote hein aur jis kisam ke gunah hote hein,  Tareekh mein is misaal nahin miltee.  
 
Gunah ki waja se Allah ki taraf se khair nahin aatee.  
 
Agar hamare aamaal yoon he kharaab rahe,  to hum kya humari naslon ka sar bhe America, INDIA aur Europe ke samne jhuke ga.  
 
TAUBA IS THE ONLY SOLUTION TO EVERY PROBLEM.  ONLY TAUBA  



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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:26:08 -0800
From: unbarry@yahoo.com
Subject: **JP** MFN....India
To:


 
assalam o alaikum,

have u ever heard this.....lamhon nay khata ki hai
                                 sadiyon nay saza pai hai


If yes then why are we all staying quiet over the decision of giving the status of Most Favourite Nation to India? Do you know the criteria for granting such status to any country? We all have some criterias for life partner while tying knots with someone then how can we take such a big decision that will determine my fate,your fate and eventually the nation's future....future in which our generations have to live....

The criterias for the MFN are:

1. there should be no border disputes between them..(where is Kashmir and their martyrs now?)

2.Both countries have common interests and benefits...(what about the dams constructed by India over Indus, Jhelum,                                                                                      Neelum to stop the downstream flow)

3.Both countries have granted equality by the other nations.(Is this so?)

4. there should be balance of trade among them.(will load shedding, high cost fuels, closing industries and railways                                                                                 maintain this balance?India doesn't let our commodities in beyond the                                                                           Amritsar while itself demanding the access for its products throughout                                                                           Pakistan...is this a friendship?)

5. they should fulfill the criteria of "a friend in need is a friend indeed"...(then what is going on in Balochistan and who                                                                                                              played the role in East Pakistan that turned into                                                                                                            Bangladesh.Who made the strategic agreement                                                                                                         with Afghanistan against our country Pakistan)


My dear countrymen! Raise your voice against this decision that might be a mistake for centuries.Learn some lesson from the history of East India Company who came here  in the name of trade and left the influence of high grades

Regards
U N Barry



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